Before iPhones

[Dennis Bishop]

This was taken in Sarah Van Hoosen Jones' farmhouse at the Rochester Hills Museum. Sarah had grown up on the farm. She received a BA in Foreign Languages from the University of Chicago and an MS degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Wisconsin. In 1921, again at Wisconsin, she became the first woman in the country to earn a Doctorate in Animal Genetics. Then she launched into an illustrious career breeding dairy cattle at the family farm.

9 exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals
ISO 640, f/22, zoom lens at 26mm, Nikon D3s

Processing

• Photomatix -- tone mapping for good histogram
• Adobe Camera Raw -- Recovery, Clarity, saturation & luminance tweaks to some colors; no white balance adjustment (didn't want to lose that warmth)
• cropped some from left and bottom for composition
• masked Curves to lighten and darken areas that would otherwise have been distracting
• two B&W Fractalius layers at Multiply blend mode, one masked from phone
• Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art (B&W) at Multiply blend mode (masked from lampshade)
• Nik Color Efex -- Glamour Glow (warm), Darken/Lighten Center
• onOne PhotoFrame -- effects near border

(This version is just a bit darker and more saturated than the PSD version.)